The sarcophagus of William Butler Ogden in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx ) | Woodlawn CemeteryOn October 8, 1871, Ogden lost most of his prized possessions in the Great Chicago Fire.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Ford Motor Company also maintains a large manufacturing facility in Woodlawn, New York, which is just south of Buffalo.

Located at the intersection of Bainbridge and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx neighborhood of Woodlawn, it is served by the 4 train at all times, providing service to the South Bronx, the East Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn on lines originally built by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company ( IRT ).

He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, while tending to Elk Horn Coal Company business, and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont.

He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

He was cremated and is interred in a niche in the Azalea Room of the Velma B. Woolworth Memorial Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

Ellington died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974, a month after his 75th birthday, and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York City.

The exposition was located in Jackson Park and on the Midway Plaisance on in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, Hyde Park and Woodlawn.

He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY, where he would be joined by other jazz giants such as Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, W. C. Handy, Milt Jackson, Max Roach, and Miles Davis, among others, all of whom owe a great debt to " Papa Joe ".

In 1917, the first Woodlawn Vase was awarded to the Preakness winner, who was not allowed to keep it.

Somoza was buried in Miami at Woodlawn Park Cemetery and Mausoleum.

Before St. Mary ’ s was recognized as a senior college in 1925, there was no formal conference competition, so the rivalry between the downtown and Woodlawn campuses was fierce.

Marjorie Leighey ( then a widow ) donated it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1964 ; it was dismantled, moved, and reconstructed at Woodlawn Plantation, where it opened to the public as the Pope-Leighey House in 1965.

Woodlawn Park is a fifth class city and was incorporated March 10, 1955

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

The settlement dates back to 1850, when Woodlawn Mill was built on the South Fork Catawba River.

Later in 1838, a post office in the area was named Woodlawn.

The Woodlawn Mill, located on Woodlawn Avenue, was built in 1906 and was the first mill in Gaston County to be served with electricity.

Aliquippa was founded by the merger of three towns: Aliquippa, Woodlawn, and New Sheffield.

He was also a bishop, prominent civic leader and founder of The Woodlawn Organization, which was influential in Chicago's civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Max Roach was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.

Perhaps the most prominent of these organizations is Woodlawn East Community And Neighbors Inc. ( WECAN ) founded by Mattie C. Butler, a 40-year Woodlawn resident and sister of Hall of Fame R & B singer / current Cook County Commissioner Jerry Butler.

Woodlawn Cemetery was founded in 1863 to the north.

The current program is a combination of two earlier programs, Hoffman-Boston, a 7th through 9th grade school founded in 1972 and Woodlawn, a 10th through 12th grade program founded in 1971 by Ray Anderson, Jeffrey Kallen, Bill Hale, and others who felt a pressing need to provide a more individualized, caring environment to students.

The H-B Woodlawn Program was created in 1978 by the merger of the Hoffman Boston Program ( H-B ) ( founded in 1972 ) and the Woodlawn Program ( founded in 1971 ), junior high and high school programs respectively, which both embraced the idea of alternative education.

By the end of that decade a private " Woodlawn Academy " had been founded to educate the children of the communities 89 residents.

The Blackstone Rangers were founded at the St. Charles Institution for Troubled Youth by Jeff Fort and Eugene Hairston as a community organization for black youth in the Woodlawn area of South Chicago.

Simon Guggenheim died in 1941 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.

The family plot of Damon Runyon in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx, New York ) | Woodlawn CemeteryRunyon's marriage to Ellen Egan produced two children ( Mary and Damon, Jr .), and broke up in 1928 over rumors that Runyon had become infatuated with a Mexican girl he had first met while covering the Pancho Villa raids in 1916 and discovered once again in New York, when she called the American seeking him out.

The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

He died of pancreatic cancer in his home at 5020 Goodridge Avenue, in the Riverdale section of the Bronx at the age of 64 and is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

The mausoleum of Jokichi Takamine in Woodlawn Cemetery ( Bronx ) | Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NYMany of the beautiful cherry blossom trees in the West Potomac Park surrounding the Tidal Basin in Washington, D. C. were donated by the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki and Dr. Takamine in 1912.

Chelsea residents from the Warhol scene included Edie Sedgwick, Viva, Ultra Violet, Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, Andrea Feldman, Nico, Paul America, René Ricard and Brigid Berlin.

The gravesite of Joe " King " Oliver in Woodlawn CemeteryThe Great Depression brought hardship to Oliver.

Among the county's major employers are the Social Security Administration, which has its national headquarters in Woodlawn, and Black & Decker in Towson.

Two historic buildings in Columbia, Dorsey Hall and Woodlawn, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Arguably the most famous Union Zouave regiments were from New York and Pennsylvania: the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, " Duryee's Zouaves " ( after its first colonel, Abram Duryee ), the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, " Collis's Zouaves " ( after their colonel, Charles H. T. Collis ) and the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry, " Fire Zouaves ".

* Clewiston: largest and most populated incorporated area in the county, Stores, Restaurants, Schools, Parks, City Hall, Emergency Medical Service Stations, Volunteer Fire Department, Clewiston Police Department, and The Sheriff Office Sub Station.

* LaBelle: the county seat, Post Office, Community Center, Church's, Parks, Schools, Stores, Restaurants, City Hall, Emergency Medical Service Stations, Volunteer Fire Department, Sheriff Office Jail, and The Sheriff Office Main building.

* Pioneer Plantatation ( unincorporated ): community with its own Volunteer Fire Department, Post Office, Community Center, church and park.

* Montura Ranch Estates ( unincorporated ): one of the larger communities in the county with its own Volunteer Fire Department, Post Office, Community Center, and Park.

* Ladeca Acres ( unincorporated ): small community also served by the Sheriff Office and Volunteer Fire Department located in Pioneer.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department ( V. F. D .).

The Borough of Akron also has a fire company established in 1893 the Akron Volunteer Fire Company Lancaster County Station 1-2, which has approximately 60 members and 3 pieces of Current Running Fire Apparatus.

Racine is home to the Racine Volunteer Fire Department which covers in its first response area.

* Clerk Fraggle ( performed by Dave Goelz )-Clerk Fraggle is responsible for taking attendance at the meetings of the Fraggle Rock Volunteer Fire Department as seen in the Fraggle Rock episode " The Thirty-Minute Work Week.

* Firechief Fraggle ( performed by Richard Hunt )-Firechief Fraggle heads the Fraggle Rock Volunteer Fire Department, and swears Wembley in as a new member, allowing him to be the siren.

The Borough of Strasburg is protected by the Strasburg Volunteer Fire Company, Lancaster County Fire Company # 5-10, Zone 5.

The Volunteer Fire Department is located at 203 Franklin Street in a brand new four garage bay facility.

The Volunteer Fire Department operates an apparatus fleet of one rescue engine, one engine, one quint, one tanker, and one squad.

* Cleveland Volunteer Fire Department

The county is served by two fire departments, Callao Volunteer Fire Department in Callao and Fairfields Volunteer Fire Department in Reedville.

The EMD Director is also responsible for the County Volunteer Rescue Squad and Awendaw Fire Department.

Some such districts are the Caromi Volunteer Fire District, Cross Fire Department, Goose Creek Rural Fire Protection District, Whitesville Rural Fire Department, Santee Circle Rural Fire Department and the Pimlico Rural Volunteer Fire Department.